If you keep giving management the good performance numbers that you do then you will continue to have a crappy contract. They know they can get good numbers out of you with the current contract so what incentive do they have to give you a new one? "Saftey first" is absolutely correct. Yeah you might **** off the passengers for a little bit, but it will all get settled in less than a month and you will end up with a good contract. Hopefully one that is industry leading. Clearly the status quo for the last 5 years isn't working.